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I Dempsey Nash Clerk of the Court of Hastings for the City of Portsmouth do hereby certify that Henry Buff of this City departed this life in the year 1863 or 1864 and that no will of the said Henry Buff has ever been offered for probate in any court of said city. I further certify that I was well and long acquainted with said Henry Buff and that he left an only child, Amelia V. Buff, the wife of Samuel Cutherell, the petitioner for the restitution of "Southgate's Institute" in the city of Norfolk, as his only heir at law. Given under my hand as Clerk of said Court this 30th day of November A.D. 1867 Dempsey Nash, C.C> [[image]] George Washington Certificate 5 stamp [[/image]]